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We thought it might be useful to some folks to share the various paid or free tools we’ve used in our line of work. Of course, as a game consultancy and studio, we work on a large variety of projects of different game genres and on different platforms. We’ve ported games onto traditional platforms such as mobile<\/a>, Nintendo Switch<\/a>, AR\/VR<\/a>, to even bespoke platforms like arcade cabinets<\/a> and feature phones<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such, what we’re using is often determined by the project we’re working on, but the following list should cover the common tools we use for game production, management and marketing. Hope it helps!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Version Control: Fork<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Fork’s great for tracking and managing all the changes we make to our projects, especially when different team members are going to be tackling things! Also, if you’re a non-developer within the games industry, we have this helpful blog<\/a> explaining what the concept of version control is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fork’s great and easy to use!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Text Editor: Sublime Text<\/a> \/ VS Code<\/a> \/ Atom<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The team is pretty torn on this one! Sublime supports many programming languages and markup languages, though a license must be purchased for continued use. VS Code is free and lightweight but with a bit more functionality (editing JSON for example). Likewise, Atom is open-source and free to use!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Integrated development environment (IDE): JetBrains Rider<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Marty, our team’s senior developer, says that JetBrains Rider is a very, very solid IDE<\/a>, perfect for all your C#\/Unity\/.net needs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We use a variety of plugins in Unity, so here’s a short list of stuff you should check out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n